- hîth (i chîth) (mist), no distinct pl. form, not even with article (i chîth), 2) *hithu (i chithu), analogical pl. hithy (i chithy). Cited in archaic form hithw (LR:364 s.v. KHIS, KHITH), so the coll. pl. is likely hithwath.
Sindarin
hîth
noun. mist
hîth
noun. mist, fog
hîth
fog
hîth
mist
hîth (i chîth) (fog), no distinct pl. form, not even with article (i chîth).
hîth
fog
(i chîth) (mist), no distinct pl. form, not even with article (i chîth)
hîth
mist
(i chîth) (fog), no distinct pl. form, not even with article (i chîth).
The Sindarin word for “mist”, an element in many names, derived from the root √KHITH of the same meaning (SA/hîth; PE17/73).
Conceptual Development: N. hîth “mist” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s, already with the derivation given above (Ety/KHIS), though when Tolkien first defined the word, he first wrote (and then deleted) the gloss “fog” (EtyAC/KHIS). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien wrote hith (LR/364), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne confirmed that the actual form was hîth in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT45/22).